Painting from observation- This exercise involved using painting to observe objects in space. For the view finder exercise I chose to complete this series of 6 scenes using the approach of painting in the shapes that are formed using a variety of different approaches….
Year: 2025
Painting 6 Inverting an image
This exercise took a single image which was inverted five times, each inversion was traced to produce an image of multiple shapes possibilities. I only did this exercise one time and the results are shown in this image. I think this could be improved in many ways, such as a different outline placement and of…
Painting 3- Portraiture experimental compositions
I did the exercises using Black/Grey/White/Single Colour Under Painting and then just kept experimenting with portraiture because I just got on a roll and enjoyed the way a painting freed up when I wasn’t tracing the image. Even the dogs weren’t safe……I played with watercolours to do them, just because I thought that it would…
Painting 1 Week 1 Exercises 1- 4 Creating a Colour Wheel; Colour Matching; Colour contrast
Finding out more about colour theory and playing with colours was good fun. I really enjoyed this practical combination of art and science that can be used to determine what colours look good together. The colour wheel is the basis of colour theory, because it shows the relationship between colours. The general information about how colour…
Drawing 4 Week 4 Exercise 1 & 2 Portrait- Facial proportions and Big Face
I really enjoyed the whole arm physicality of the big face drawing and am grateful for the generic notes on facial proportions as I found these incredibly helpful as a beginner to portraiture. I used charcoal on paper for these images. Big face is now nicely folded away as it is way too intimidating to…
Drawing Warmup
Contour drawing all the way I say……Love a contour and although these exercises were warm up prior to week 1 exercises, I have continued to do them each week and find they loosen up my drawing and help me get my eye focussed on what I am depicting. Anything not able to run away was…
Drawing 2 Week 2 Single and Two Point Perspective Exercise 1 & 2
I explored one point and two point perspective with the above images. All works were completed with a variety of lead pencil. The cottage is one on my Grandies farm with sentimental value to me, so I feel like this helped with my commitment to creating an interesting representation as I would not normally be…
